dence.

The pamphlet copies of the statutes and the bound copies, Force as eviof the Acts of each Congress shall be legal evidence of the laws and treaties therein contained in all the courts of the United States and of the several States therein. The Contents. said pamphlet and the Statutes at Large shall contain all laws, joint and concurrent resolutions passed by Congress, and also all conventions, treaties, proclamations, and agreements.

documents.

Limit of cer tain reports.

Of the President's Message and accompanying documents Message and and of the annual reports of the Departments to Congress there shall be printed one thousand copies for the Senate and two thousand for the House: Provided. That of the Proviso. reports of the Chief of Engineers of the Army, the Commissioner of Patents, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the report of the Chief Signal Officer of the War Department, and of the Chief of Ordnance, the usual number only shall be printed.

Of the Registers of the Army and Navy, fifteen hundred copies of each; five hundred for the Senate and one thousand for the House.

Registers, Army and Navy.

Of the Tests of Iron and Steel, five hundred copies for Iron and Steel. distribution by the War Department.

Congressional
Directory.
R. S.. sec. 3861,

There shall be prepared under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing a Congressional Directory, of which there shall be three editions during each long session and p. 746, amended. two editions during each short session of Congress. The first edition shall be distributed to Senators, Representatives, Delegates, the principal officers of Congress, and heads of Departments on the first day of the session, and shall be ready for distribution to others within one week thereafter. The number and distribution of such Directory shall be under the control of the Joint Committee on Printing. Official correspondence concerning the Directory may be had in penalty envelopes under the direction of the Joint Committee. The Public Printer shall furnish the Congressional Congressional Record as follows and shall furnish gratuitously no others Sole gratuitous in addition thereto :

To the library of each of the eight Executive Departments, and to the Naval Observatory, Smithsonian Institution and the United States National Museum, one bound copy.

Record.

distribution.

To enable the officer charged with the duty of preparing Official Regis the Official Register of the United States to publish the ter Preparation. same, the Secretary of the Senate, the Clerk of the House R. S., sec. 510, of Representatives, the head of each Executive Department P. 84, amended. of the Government, and the chief of each and every bureau, office, commission, or institution not embraced in an Executive Department, in connection with which salaries are paid from the Treasury of the United States, shall, on the first day of July in each year in which a new Congress is to assemble, cause to be filed with the Secretary of the Interior a full and complete list of all officers, agents, clerks,

Editing, etc.

Distribution.

.

3800, pp. 85, 746, amended.

and other employees of said Department, bureau, office, commission, or institution connected with the legislative, executive, or judicial service of the Government, or paid from the United States Treasury, including military and naval officers of the United States, cadets, and midshipmen. Said lists shall exhibit the salary, compensation, and emoluments allowed to each of said officers, agents, clerks, and other employees, the State or country in which he was born, the State or Territory and Congressional district and county of which he is a resident and from which he was appointed to office, and where employed.

A list of the names, force, and condition of all ships and vessels belonging to the United States, and when and where built, shall also be filed with the Secretary of the Interior by the heads of the Departments having supervision of such ships and vessels, for incorporation in the Official Register.

The Secretary of the Interior shall cause the Official Register to be edited, indexed, and published by the chief clerk of the Interior Department, on the first day of December following the first day of July above mentioned.

Of the Official Register three thousand copies shall be R. S., secs. 511, printed and bound, which shall be distributed as follows: To the President of the United States, four copies, one copy of which shall be for the library of the Executive Mansion; to the Vice-President of the United States, two copies; to each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in Congress, one copy; to the Secretary and Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, to the Clerk and Sergeant-at-Arms of the House, one copy each; to the library of the Senate, ten copies; to the library of the House of Representatives, ten copies; to the Library of Congress, twenty-five copies; to the Department of State, one hundred copies; to the Treasury Department, one hundred and fifty copies; to the War Department, fifty copies; to the Navy Department, twenty copies.

Monthly vol. ume of patents issued.

p. 81, amended.

*

Copies of the specifications and drawings of each patent issued, bound in monthly volumes, one copy for each of R. S.. sec. 490, the Executive Departments of the Government, one copy to be placed for free public inspection in each capitol of every State and Territory, one for the like purpose in the clerk's office of the district court of each judicial district of the United States, except when such offices are located in State or Territorial capitols, and one in the Library of Congress, which copies shall be certified under the hand of the Commissioner and seal of the Patent Office, and shall not be taken from the depositories for any other purpose than to be used as evidence; also one hundred additional copies of the same, for sale by him at a price to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior. The "usual number" shall not be printed.

Inserting compliments forbidden.

No report, document, or publication of any kind distributed by or from an Executive Department or bureau of the Government shall contain any notice that the same is sent with "the compliments" of an officer of the Government, or with any special notice that it is so sent, except

that notice that it has been sent, with a request for an acknowledgment of its receipt, may be given.

officials.

SEC. 74. Government publications furnished to judical Publications to and executive officers of the United States for their official use shall not become the property of these officers, but on the expiration of their official term shall be by them delivered to their successors in office and all Government publications delivered to designated depositories or other libraries shall be for public use without charge.

tions.

Reciprocal dis

SEC. 75. Documents and reports may be furnished to Foreign legaforeign legations to the United States upon request specifying those desired and requisition made upon the Public Printer by the Secretary of State: Provided, That such Proviso. gratuitous distribution shall only be made to legations tribution. whose Governments furnish to legations from the United States copies of their printed and legislative documents desired.

charts.

SEC. 76. The charts published by the Coast and Geo-Coast Survey detic Survey shall be sold at cost of paper and printing R. S., sec. 4691, as nearly as practicable; and there shall be no free distri- p. 911, amended. bution of such charts except to the Departments and officers of the United States requiring them for public use; and a number of copies of each sheet, not to exceed three hundred, to be presented to such foreign governments, libraries, and scientific associations, and institutions of learning as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct; but on the order of Senators, Representatives, and Delegates not to exceed ten copies to each may be distributed through the Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey.

Office charts, etc.

SEC. 77. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to Hydrographic cause to be prepared at the Hydrographic Office attached R. S., sec. 432, to the Bureau of Navigation, in the Navy Department, p. 72. maps, charts, and nautical books relating to and required in navigation, and to publish and furnish them to navigators at the cost of printing and paper, and to purchase the plates and copyrights of such existing maps, charts, navigators' sailing directions and instructions as he may consider necessary and when he may deem it expedient to do so, and under such regulations and instructions as he may prescribe.

sales.

All moneys which may be received from the sale of maps, Receipts from charts, and nautical books shall be paid by the Secretary R. S., sec. 433, of the Navy into the Treasury of the United States, to be p. 72, amended. used in the further preparation and publication of maps, charts, navigators' sailing directions, and instructions for the use of seamen, to be sold at the cost of printing and paper.

SEC. 78. All appropriations made for the preparation or Foreign hydrographic charts. publication of foreign hydrographic surveys shall only R. S., sec. 3686, be applicable to their object, upon the approval by the P. 723. Secretary of the Navy, after a report from three competent naval officers to the effect that the original data for proposed charts are such as to justify their publication; and it is hereby made the duty of the Secretary of the Navy to

reports, etc.

order a board of three naval officers to examine and report upon the data before he shall approve of any application of moneys to the preparation or publication of such charts or hydrographic surveys.

Illustrations in SEC. 80. No document or report to be illustrated or accompanied by maps shall be printed by the Public Printer until the illustrations or maps designed therefor shall be ready for publication; and no order for public printing shall be acted upon by the Public Printer after the expiration of one year, unless the entire copy and illustrations for the work shall have been furnished within that period: Provided, This section shall not apply to orders heretofore made for the printing of a series of volumes on one subject.

Proviso.

Series.

Binding.

Classification of documents.

Bills and reso. lutions, bound sets.

Committee re

ports.

Binding bonds, etc.

SEC. 81. Every public document of sufficient size on any one subject shall be bound separately, and receive the title suggested by the subject of the volume, which shall be the chief title, and the classification of the volume shall be placed on the back at the bottom, as simply indicating its classification and not as a part of the title.

The executive and miscellaneous documents and the reports of each House of Congress shall be designated as "House Documents," ""Senate Documents," "House Reports," "Senate Reports," thus making two classes for each House, and each volume shall receive the title suggested by its subject matter clearly placed upon its back.

SEC. 82. The Public Printer shall bind four sets of Senate and House of Representatives bills, joint and concurrent resolutions of each Congress, two for the Senate and two for the House, to be furnished him from the files of the Senate and House document foom, the volumes when bound to be kept there for reference.

SEC. 83. The Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House shall procure and file for the use of their respective Houses copies of all reports made by committees, and they are hereby directed at the close of each session of Congress to cause such reports to be indexed and bound, one copy to be deposited in the library of each House and one copy in the room of the committee from which the reports

emanate.

SEC. 84. Registered bonds and written records may be R. S., sec. 3787, bound at the Treasury Department.

p. 744.

Franking documents.

Correspond. ence, etc., free.

SEC. 85. The Vice-President, Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, the Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House of Representatives may send and receive through the mail all public documents printed by order of Congress; and the name of the Vice-President, Senator, Representative, Delegate, Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House shall be written thereon, with the proper designation of the office he holds; and the provisions of this section shall apply to each of the persons named therein until the first day of December following the expiration of their respective terms of office.

The Vice-President, members and members-elect of and Delegates and Delegates-elect to Congress shall have the

privilege of sending free through the mails, and under their frank, any mail matter to any Government official or to any person, correspondence, not exceeding one ounce in weight, upon official or departmental business.

Work must be

authorized.
R. S., sec. 3785,

Binding.

SEC. 86. No printing or binding shall be done at the Government Printing Office unless authorized by law. Binding for the Departments of the Government shall be p. 744, amended. done in plain sheep or cloth, except that record and account books may be bound in Russia leather, sheep fleshers, and skivers, when authorized by the head of a Department: Provided, The libraries of the several Departments, the Libraries, etc. Library of Congress, the libraries of the Surgeon-General's Office, the Patent Office, and the Naval Observatory may have books for the exclusive use of said libraries bound in half Turkey, or material no more expensive.

Proviso.

be

Work to done at Printing Office.

R. S., scc. 3786,

p. 744, amended.

SEC. 87. All printing, binding, and blank books for the Senate or House of Representatives and for the Executive and Judicial Departments shall be done at the Government Printing Office, except in cases otherwise provided by law. SEC. 88. The Public Printer shall execute such printing Printing, etc., and binding for the President as he shall order and make requisitions for, and deliver to the Executive Mansion two copies each of all documents, bills, and resolutions as soon as printed and ready for distribution.

for the Presi dent.

not to be exceeded, etc.

SEC. 89. No printing shall be done for the Executive Appropriations Departments in any fiscal year in excess of the amount of the appropriation, and none shall be done without a special requisition, signed by the chief of the Department and filed with the Public Printer.

ited.

Department

reports.

Crop reports,

No report, publication, or document shall be printed in Number limexcess of the number of one thousand of each in any one fiscal year without authorization therefor by Congress, except that of the annual report of the head of the Department without appendices there may be printed in any one fiscal year not to exceed five thousand copies, bound in pamphlet form; and of the reports of chiefs of bureaus Bureau reports. without appendices there may be printed in any one fiscal year not to exceed two thousand five hundred copies, bound in pamphlet form: Provided, The Secretary of Agriculture Provisos. may print such number of copies of the monthly crop report, etc. and of other reports and bulletins containing not to exceed one hundred octavo pages, as he shall deem requisite; and this provision shall apply to the maps, charts, bulletins, and minor reports of the Weather Bureau, which shall be printed in such numbers as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem for the best interests of the Government: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Treasury may authorize the printing of the notices to mariners, tide etc. tables' coast pilots, bulletins, and other special publications of the Coast and Geodetic Survey and of the Light-House Board, and the Secretary of the Navy may authorize the printing of the charts, maps, notices to mariners, tide tables, light lists, sailing directions, bulletins, and other special publications of the Hydrographic Office in such editions as the interests of the Government and of the public may require.

Marine notices,